[Magdalen] Latin Invasion?

[Joseph Cirou]

Scott,

I think you are just young enough not to remember those prayers from your
RC days. They are the Leonine Prayers that were said after every Low Mass.
They were prescribed by Pope Leo XIII in the 1880's or so and continued to
the early 1960's. They also used to be called the Prayers for the
Conversion of Russia; I don't know whether that was the original purpose; I
think not I think it was a reaction to the Bolshevik Revolution  The Prayer
to St. Michael the Archangel was part of them

Joe Cirou

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Roger Stokes
> <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > Years ago Joan and I would sometimes go to Tridentine rite masses. It was
> > noticeable that the avergae age of the congregation at these masses was
> > distinctly younger (and younger still because of the children) than was
> > typical at a regular mass.  Of course the total number of congregants was
> > also far smaller than the total at the regular masses in parish churches
> as
> > the faithful few gathered from a large area.
>
> The 12:30 p.m. Tridentine High Mass at St. John Cantius here in
> Chicago is a hugely attended Mass, with lots of young couples and
> families. There seems to be a lot of traffic to and from a child-care
> area somewhere. But they also have an 11 a.m. Novus Ordo Latin Mass
> similarly attended.
>
> Scott the Younger has a low Requiem Mass said for his departed mother
> every year around July 1. This year it was in an ornate (quite
> beautiful) chapel and said by Fr. Scott Haynes, who is in charge of a
> lot of the music and publishing activities and the Healey Willan
> Society (that's right; you read that correctly). For me the Requiem
> was a lot of kneeling in silence, sweating, and innerly celebrating
> the turning of each successive page in the silver Requiem Mass guide.
> :) And praying for the repose of the soul of his mom.
>
> Scott the Younger did a funny mistake last year at the Requiem...there
> traditionally are some prayers in English after the Last Gospel,
> including three recitations of "Most Sacred Heart of Jesus: have mercy
> on us." Last year it started with Fr. Haynes saying "Most Sacred Heart
> of Jesus" and Scott said "Pray for us." Fr. Haynes joined in the
> responses from then on. :)
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>